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Who penned the Mk2 anyway? was: so what rocco...
It was penned in house by Herbert Schafer...so he gets the thank-you
card...now if only we could find the name of the guy who put on the US DOT
spec bumpers...he gets some serious beats
sandor
> Guigaro was contracted for a design that was to be the MKII but
> Volkswagon decided to use their own. Guigaro original design became the
> Isuzu impulse.
>
> -Raffi
>
>
> At 08:14 PM 1/23/03 -0800, T Berk wrote:
>
>> > >----- Original Message -----
>> > >Subject: RE: so what rocco did you have first?? mk1 or mk2?????
>> > >
>> > > > wasnt the mk2 rocco out before the impulse?? the rocco2
>> > > > came out in late 81, so i would think that the impulse came
>> second. plus it doesnt matter, cause they were
>> > > > both designed by the same guy.
>> > >
>> > >Nope, the Mk2 was designed by folks inside VW. Our man Guigaro had
>> nothing to do with it.
>> > >--
>> > >Scott F. Williams
>>
>> > At 10:39 PM 1/22/03 -0500, Scourge wrote:
>> >
>> > >Guigaro had nothing to do with the mk2?????
>> > >compare it to a DeLorean (my absolutly mostest favorite fantastical
>> flabulated car) which was designed by Guigaro, as well as the
>> Espirit........that's toooo close, but of course I could be wrong
>> The only thing that caught my attention about Scirocco's at first
>> was the similarity to a DeLorean.......now I own my second fav
>> car....and I'm 19, lol, it rocks!!!
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >L8er
>>
>>"John C. Worden" wrote:
>> >
>> > Well he kind of had something to do with it in that he designed the
>> MkI, and that evolved via VW's design dept.
>> > into the MkII. But that is it.
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>>
>>
>>Giugiaro did a four car study, one of which was for VW, the others I
>> believe included BMW called the 'Aces'. Each was similar but slightly
>> different... lets see about a link-
>>
>>Hah! When in doubt rely on (sometimes former) list members:
>>
>><http://www.scirocco2.de/design.htm> Good ol' Doug! Shout goes out
>> your way.
>>
>><http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=+Giugiaro++ace&spell=1>
>>
>>
>>TBerk
>>
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